Regional seismic risk and resilience assessment: Methodological development, applicability, and future research needs–An earthquake engineering perspective

A Du, X Wang, Y Xie, Y Dong - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Given the devastating losses incurred by past major earthquake events together with the
ever-increasing global seismic exposures due to population growth and urbanization …

Fragility analysis methods: Review of existing approaches and application

I Zentner, M Gündel, N Bonfils - Nuclear Engineering and design, 2017 - Elsevier
In seismic reliability analysis the total failure probability is determined by combining the
fragility curve–representing the response of the structure to seismic excitation–with the …

Assessment of various seismic fragility analysis approaches for structures excited by non-stationary stochastic ground motions

XY Cao, DC Feng, Y Li - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2023 - Elsevier
A probabilistic assessment is performed using different seismic fragility analysis approaches
for structures under non-stationary stochastic ground motions. Four commonly used …

Statistical procedures for developing earthquake damage fragility curves

D Lallemant, A Kiremidjian… - Earthquake Engineering & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes statistical procedures for developing earthquake damage fragility
functions. Although fragility curves abound in earthquake engineering and risk assessment …

Seismic fragility functions via nonlinear response history analysis

K Bakalis, D Vamvatsikos - Journal of structural engineering, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
The estimation of building fragility, ie, the probability function of seismic demand exceeding
a certain limit state capacity given the seismic intensity, is a common process inherent in any …

Seismic fragility analysis with artificial neural networks: Application to nuclear power plant equipment

Z Wang, N Pedroni, I Zentner, E Zio - Engineering Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
The fragility curve is defined as the conditional probability of failure of a structure, or its
critical components, at given values of seismic intensity measures (IMs). The conditional …

Stochastic vulnerability assessment of masonry structures: concepts, modeling and restoration aspects

PG Asteris, A Moropoulou, AD Skentou… - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
A methodology aiming to predict the vulnerability of masonry structures under seismic action
is presented herein. Masonry structures, among which many are cultural heritage assets …

CrackEmbed: Point feature embedding for crack segmentation from disaster site point clouds with anomaly detection

J Chen, YK Cho - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Laser-scanned point clouds can be used to represent the 3D as-damaged condition of
building structures in a post-disaster scenario. Performing crack detection from the acquired …

Toward multivariate fragility functions for seismic damage and loss estimation of high‐rise buildings

P Kourehpaz, C Molina Hutt… - … Engineering & Structural …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Data‐driven models for seismic damage and loss assessment of buildings have become
more common in recent years due to the availability of large repositories of recorded and …

Site dependence and record selection schemes for building fragility and regional loss assessment

M Kohrangi, D Vamvatsikos… - … Engineering & Structural …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
When performing loss assessment of a geographically dispersed building portfolio, the
response or loss (fragility or vulnerability) function of any given archetype building is …